Improved trunk



- T mvell following ,is afull, clear, andfexnet description ofthe con-- strnetionand opeintionotthe same, reterenee being had tant Memer? w eezeteeww MAURICE FI'TZGIBBONS; OFTNEVV' 'YO'RKQNQ Y., AssiGNOR To HIM- SELF AND RALPH'l AS."JllNl\ lll\lGS, SAME` PLACE.- Y

y Leiters Petent No. 85,919, dated Jaanary 19, 186.9. I

nurnovnn TRUNK .hw-N" I V l ,no Schedule referz'ed. to in these Letters Parent and making p'art of th name.

Be it known that I, MAURICE Frrzernnonsfof New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, have inventeda new and'valnable Improvement in inga-Tmnks; and I` do hereby declare that the tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this speciliv cation, ardto theletteis and figures of reierenee inarked thereon. y

Figure 1, of the" drawings, is a. View ofthe top or luy-trunk, with the lid removed;

' Figure 2 is a longitudinal section end Figure 3 vertical section thereof.

My vinvention relates to travelling-trunks and boxes intended for holding and' protecting tusalgi wearingapparel against the inroads of lnoths,:. aiffvother like.

destructive insee-ts; and It consists in lining the'interiorof such 'trunk or box with aveneering oi' eamplr-woodor Spanish ce'dzmf. cnt with the grain of the timber in the saine manneras the veneer-ing,r is prepared that is used asa substitute for wall-paper; and also 'in providing novel and effective means for rendering sneh trnnk or box airtight.

' The letter ofthe drawings, represents the bottom fof my trunk, and the letter. B is the lid thereof.

` The red lines, marked af, show the camphor-wood or Spanish-cedar lining pasted on to the wood both of the bottom and lid ofthe trunk.

' I onta groove in the top of 'the trunk-bottoni, ex-

tending-mound the sarne, about onefourth 'of' an in oh the India-rubber band next mentioned;-

in depth, and "of snllicient width to receive and lhold The letter c -s a continuons bend of India rubben,

.fitted inthe groovenbove mentioned, and extending entirely around'the box, as shown'.

Oni the lower side 'of the lid, land extending around ,i the saine, I aix'a ange, marked s on the drawings,

which, when'the lid is pressed downward, enters into the rubber band c, and, operating therewith, renders the trunk air-tight.

v This arrangement not only seenres the trunk against moths, (to which the odorof oaniphor-wood or SpanishV cedar is very oiiensive,) but it enables the traveller' to seonre his Clothing from sinking in water in ease of a marine accident.

The odor of the eamphor 'oi'.'eedar-Wood is also very agreeable to thesenseof smellin man, andtliatsense is gratified by the apparel stored in" my trunk. What claim as .my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A trunk, having lining a, India-rubberband c,' and flange `s, constructed and zn'ranged substantially as and for the p'nrposes herein specified. A

, In testimony that I claimthe above, I have herel unto subscribed my'narne, inthe presence' of two witnesses.

-I' MAURICE FrrzeIBBoNs. Witnesses: L t 

